Best Buy Proudly Offers Yet Another Fictional Service

It now appears that most of the civilized world may have underestimated the intricacy of modern shutter glass technology. Shutter glass technology is such a technological labyrinth that only a handful of men know the correct way to use 3D glasses. Thankfully enough, though, they are willing to let others partake from their well of esoteric wisdom for around $150.

They are charging you to set up your TV and connect you Blu-Ray player to your wireless network. This has always been a service that they charged for the same price. Now they are just adding the service of synching your 3D Glasses to your TV as well. Yes it is not truly a bonus as they are just powering the glasses on. But it is not an additional charge.

So, I should be happy that Worst Try offers the option to have them "sync" the 3D glasses to the TV. Install my games on to the console, and sell me pre-optimized computers where nothing substantial is done at all.

The issue is when they offer a service that is just a money grab and offers nothing of benifet to the customer/user.

the 3D glasses do NOT need to be synced with anything. They do NOT need to install console games (if the game supports it, it tells you when it's first launched, automatically, and it's pretty simple to hit 'X' or 'A' (depending on system). And they sure as hell don't need to do any sort of "optimizing" of PC's unless the customer asks for it. And if they do ask for it, the customer should get more than just a couple icons removed, and the machine registered to "user".

The fact is that Worst Try does what they can to get as much money from the customer, while lieing through their teeth about it. "Yes! We need to um.. ensure that the MAC address of Halo 3 is registered with the uh... WPA key on your 360 so that it can properly get an IP address from your TV and you can play your game.". And you know what, there are far too many customers out there who will think that what they're being told is the truth and accept it anyway! I've stopped a few sales people before as they try and lie to a customer and make them pay for something that they don't need or is useless to them!

If you think it's a great service, then use it. But the rest of us can't be swindled by these con artists!

I am insinuating... uh, no, I am saying that you are making no sense, and are defending a company based on merits it actually doesn't possess. And, if you were, in fact, a Best Buy executive (haha) the shoe would fit.

That reminds me, I need to get my windshield wipers rotated! I think Wal-mart might have a spring break discount for that. And I'll have them top up the spark plug fluid and change out the battery filter while they're at it.

STOP using this stupid line as an excuse! Its a known fact EVERYONE needs money for something... and that line has nothing to do with the arguement that what was being shown/displayed as a service is a lie and/or an excuse to take pure advantage of an unknowning customer or future customer. I shop at Best Buy all the time, but I have noticed in the first quarter this year I have never been more discussed with their instore service practices. Either its the staff that not educated enough about a product or they expect you to believe what they tell you when you ask them a question.

And to the person that posted the supposed 'manual'... if i had the manual and its giving me step throughs, why would i need to pay to have it synched? This is just like what they did back in the day when wireless routers first came out...

After overclocking my 3d glasses, my eyes kept glazing over with a BSOD. My mom would have to come downstairs and lift my left hand, pinch my nose, and kick me in the shin while my brain-sync chip rebooted itself.

I had to install a new fan/heatsink combo onto the brain-sync chip in my head to keep them from over heating, but I still got the same issue: eyes glazed over with a BSOD. I finally realized that I didn't apply enough thermal past between said heat sink and the back of my skull. After correcting that issue, and several trips over to a questionable Asian hospital for brain surgery (the first one failed. had to replace my cerrebelum after that one!), I'm running good as new!

Oh well. I should have listened to best buy and bought their services to sync 3d glasses, right?!

Good thing the extended warranty covered everthing that went wrong! (NOT!)

After reading this, why would those with a choice bother to do business with such a dishonest organization? I say that because the only alternatives for tech around here are Wal-Mart and the scattered office warehouses. Anymore I do most of my shopping for IT at Newegg. And best of all, if you don't know what you're doing, you can always browse to a forum (such as MaxPC's own, for instance) and ask for advice.

The only disadvantage to this practice I see is that you can't get hands-on with the product you intend to purchase. (I suppose that's ONE use that Best Buy has.)

I just walk around like I know what I want and where I'm going to try to keep the sales associates at bay. Most of them don't know their right from their left (and were just happy they got a job there instead of the discount stores they applied to).

In the aviation industry, we offer dual-blade, tri-blade and quad-blade propwash! (anyone here who's a pilot knows what propwash is). At the FBO that I worked at, if we had a new guy, we'd have him/her go over to our competitor and ask for some propwash.

Hopefully I'll get a job as a GeekSquad tech in the morning. Wish me luck. Best Buy is in the business to make money and so is everyone else. I mean who needs these extended warranty's that every store sells? So it's a gimmick and I must point out that our system was born from gimmicks.

Checking the air pressure and stuff can be actually done. There is no syncing to be done with 3d glasses. And if someone was to read that (mainly non-technical people) they would probably get the service because they think they cant do it on there own. Its false advertisement.